Basilan farmers to produce calamansi juice

• Source: http://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1027025
• Thursday, March 1, 2018 9:41 pm

By Teofilo Garcia, Jr (PNA)

ZAMBOANGA CITY -- Calamansi farmers in one of the towns of Basilan province will start the production of juice in April, this year.

This, as the construction of the calamansi processing plant in Barangay Tairan, Lantawan town is set to be completed this month.

Secretary Myra Mangkabung of the Department of Science and Technology in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (DOST-ARMM) said they have released PHP3 million for the construction of the processing plant in Tairan.

Mangkabung said the PHP3 million allocation includes the purchase of the needed equipment and tools in the production of juice as well as for the farmers’ capacity building.

Mangkabung told the Philippine News Agency that so far the farmers in Tairan have an existing four hectares farm planted to calamansi.

“They are expanding the farm to six hectares and that’s more than enough to sustain continuous production of calamansi juice,” she said.

She said DOST-ARMM would also assist the farmers in marketing the calamansi juice products.

She said the production of the calamansi juice would boost the income of the farmers in Barangay Tairan, Lantawan.